SALFIT, March 13, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Thursday evening detained a Palestinian from Farkha village, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Salfit, according to local sources.
They said that the occupying forces rounded up a young man from the village.
Meanwhile, the occupation forces ransacked several houses and stores and seized the recordings of surveillance cameras from Bruqin town, west of Salfit.
They have conducted multiple raids in towns and villages in the Salfit governorate and tightened movement restrictions on the checkpoints at the entrances of villages, particularly in the western Salfit governorate.
Earlier today, a convoy of army vehicles stormed Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, where the gun-toting soldiers re-arrested a former prisoner who spent approximately 20 years in Israeli imprisonment along with his son, as confirmed by media activist, Mohammad Awad.
The occupation forces also rounded up a youth after beating him up from the Qibli Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
In the predawn hours today, the occupation forces conducted multiple raids across the occupied West Bank, detaining at least 25 Palestinians, including a woman and former detainees.
The occupation forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost daily across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.
These raids are conducted with no need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.
Under Israeli military law army commanders have full executive, legislative, and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised.
According to the latest figures from Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, there are currently 9,500 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 350 child prisoners and 21 female prisoners.
This number includes approximately 3,405 Palestinians placed under “administrative detention”, which allows the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.
The mass arrest of Palestinians is nothing new. According to a 2017 report by Addameer, over the past 50 years, more than 800,000 Palestinians have been imprisoned or detained by Israel, this figure is now believed to be closer to 1 million. This means that about 40% of Palestinian men and boys living under military occupation have been deprived of their freedom. Almost every Palestinian family has suffered the imprisonment of a loved one.
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